Quote from: treodu on December 26, 2017, 05:11:41 PM

tl;rl
1.sudo gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x2BD5824B7F9470E6
2.sudo gpg --fingerprint 0x2BD5824B7F9470E6
3.sudo gpg --verify Electrum-3.0.3.tar.gz.asc Electrum-3.0.3.tar.gz
are the full and correct steps to verify electrum bitcoin wallet for all those searching to verify but find nothing accurate.

-0x2BD5824B7F9470E6 comes from https://electrum.org/#download - look for ThomasV. link top of page friends
-ensure the tar.gz and the .asc are both in the folder where you execute commandline syntax above
gpg: Good signature from "Thomas Voegtlin should be displayed after step 3. if not then do more due diligence.

How to verify a download:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1733714.msg17346941#msg17346941
https://www.torproject.org/docs/verifying-signatures.html.en

I agree it is a crying shame help is not more forthcoming from experienced users, here, nor on reddit. We appreciate ThomasV. for his contribution and dont expect him to field newbie questions - that is where the community is supposed to step up. perhaps the donation requirement for post replies, or the negative experiences of experienced users have had but as a community bitcoin should stop pumping and return to its roots as a community that TRIES to help.

The first step didn't work for me. I don't now if it was because it was unable to connect to that keypool hosted on that .mit site, I had to use this:

gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 7F9470E6

Im not sure if this:

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7F9470E6 would have worked? maybe you had to do use 7F9470E6 instead of 0x2BD5824B7F9470E6 or maybe it was because of the keyserver... anyhow, this is how it went:

1) download the latest .tar file on the Electrum site
2) do "gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 7F9470E6" on the folder which must contain the signature file + the .tar file
3) untar file
4) "python3 electrum" inside the Electrum folder, this will run Electrum live through python

That is all.